![]() The novel surrounds the lives of pacifist Mennonites in Saskatchewan during World War II. Wiebe has also published the novels First and Vital Candle ( 1966), The Scorched-Wood People ( 1977), The Mad Trapper ( 1980), and My Lovely Enemy ( 1983) the short-story volumes Where Is the Voice Coming from? ( 1974) and The Angel of the Tar Sands and Other Stories ( 1982) Playing Dead ( 1989), ‘a contemplation concerning the Arctic’ and a novel for children. Peace Shall Destroy Many is the first novel by Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. The Temptations of Big Bear ( 1973), regarded by many as his finest novel to date, is another large-scale work, centred on the figure of a late nineteenth-century Cree Indian chief who defied central Canadian authority. The Blue Mountains of China ( 1970) surveys the experience of the Mennonite diaspora in the Soviet Union, Paraguay, and Canada. ![]() His first novel, Peace Shall Destroy Many ( 1962), is about a young Mennonite torn between the traditions of his community and religion and a yearning for a more individual existence. Most of his work is about Prairie minorities and demonstrates a strong regional commitment to questioning conventionally accepted versions of Canadian cultural identity. ![]() Raised in a tightly knit Mennonite community, Wiebe has remained a staunch Christian throughout his adult life, teaching at the Mennonite Brethren Bible College, Goshen College, Indiana, and at the University of Alberta, while also pursuing a career as a writer of post-modernist fictions. ![]() Canadian novelist, born in Northern Saskatchewan, educated at the Universities of Alberta and Tübingen. ![]()
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